you have to keep in mind that the persecution that the word nigger is associated with isnt ancient history there are millions of people alive today who not only remember the civil rights movement and the assassination of people like king and malcom but literally participated in said movement shit one of the candidates for president was arrested during a protest against segregation back in that same year the governor of alabama said segregation now segregation forever and physically blocked the doors to the university of alabama in an effort to protest its desegregation and had to be removed by a military general rodney king was only years ago redlining still goes on the word nigger represents all of that